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"The Ukrainian writer, translator, and critic Ilya Kaminsky took the literary world by storm in 2019 with his internationally exalted “fairy tale in verse” ‘Deaf Republic’. He joins Lyrafest for an intimate reading and book signing – a rare chance to see this genuine poetry master at work. "
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A event held at Watershed on Sunday 27th April. The event starts at 16:00.
✅ BSL Interpreted
All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions)
An exclusive Bristol reading from international guest poet Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and co-editor and co-translator of many other books. With a support reading from Charlotte Shevchenko Knight.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived in the US in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. His work was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Filters:
BSL Interpreted ✓
Live Event ✓
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
All Lyra Fest venues are wheelchair accessible. Our full 2025 Access Information Pack is available at www.lyrafest.com.
Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions)
An exclusive Bristol reading from international guest poet Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019), Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and co-editor and co-translator of many other books. With a support reading from Charlotte Shevchenko Knight.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived in the US in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. His work was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.
Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
#LyraFest
Filters:
BSL Interpreted ✓
Live Event ✓
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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